State · 1650 – 1580 BCE

Sixteenth Dynasty of Egypt

A state of 1650 – 1580 BCE — 70 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It followed Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt. It was followed by Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 70 years; 1650 BCE – 1580 BCE
Most ground: 24,600 km²; in 1600 BCE

Map: Sixteenth Dynasty of Egypt in 1600 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Sixteenth Dynasty of Egypt in 1600 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 24,600 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt · follows · 1650 – 1550 BCE

After it

Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt · followed by · 1580 – 1550 BCE

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

24,600 km² in 1600 BCE, 24,600 km² in 1580 BCE; at its largest 24,600 km² in 1600 BCE. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood70 years
stood longer than 40% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held24,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 24% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1660 BCE – 1570 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1600 BCE, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q737695 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.